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T OURISTS t'J^BLACKHILLS 



South Dakota 

MAPS PREPARED ESPEC/AUY BY TH& 

- FOR THE USE OF DAKOTA ENGINEERIN6 CQ 

\^UTOMOBiLE Tourists mitch&lc.s.d. 



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SOUTH DAKOTA SECTION Ot .CHlCAGO-V'ELLOU'JSTQMi PARK HIGHWAY 
And Other Cross State Road. Maps and County Road Maps 
^(em Nallonn! Bank Bnl) •■ MITCHELL, S. D'. 



Souvenir Map and Guide for Tourists in the 

BLACK HILLS 

o/ South Dakota 

Maps prepared especially for the use of Automoble Tourists 

BY THE 

DAKOTA ENGINEERING COMPANY 
MITCHELL, SOUTH DAKOTA 

eMitchell Pub. Co.. Mitchell. S.D. Copyright, 1913, by Edward K. Mather. C. E. 



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HE possibility of motoring through various sections of the Black Hills for 
pleasure and business has long been known. The idea is new, however, of 
I K/zy selecting good automobile routes to reach the larger cities and points of 
JL kV/ scenic interest in this region, and of platting the same as a guide to the strang- 
er who may be easily lost amid the windings and branchings of the roads in 
forest, mining camp or city. The strenuous efforts of various localities and 
counties along these routes to improve them during the last two years has made them now 
such as may be travelled with pleasure. 

The natural scenery on a scale majestic in size, yet of readily appreciated magnitude; the 
proximity of the primitive forest to the noise and rush of the mining or industrial center; the 
strange thoughts on realizing that here lies the richest tract one hundred miles square on earth, 
all serve to make the trip through the Black Hills a memorable one; even to him who has trav- 
eled far and near across ocean, desert sands or broad plains in search of nature's beauty spots. 

From a personal standpoint, the renewed vigor, and quieted nerves that result from 
rest among such pleasant surroundings, breathing pure air, laden with the odor of the pines, 
bathing in or drinking mineral waters all make it a trip well worth while. 

It i3-_lvoped that to the stranger to the Black Hills region this book will bring some 
idea of the"pleasure and profit to be found amid such surroundings, and that it will be an aid 
to him in the proper enjoyment of the same. 



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Moderate temperature, winter and summer, abundance of sunshine and clear, dry air make 
CLIMATE the Black Hills particularly desirable from a tourist's standpoint. The altitude ranging from 
3500 to 8000 feet above sea level. Absolute freedom from mosquitoes in many parts of the 
hills and cool, dry nights make it an ideal country for camping. 

In the wilder portions, bears, wild cats, evolves, silver foxes, and other large game may be found. 
GAME Special provision has been made for re-stocking the Forest Reserve at frequent intervals with 

deer and elk which, together with legal protection for these animals from December 1st to No- 
vember 1st makes them very plentiful. Plover, partridges, pheasants, grouse, ducks and geese may be 
easily had in season. Although many kinds of fish are found in the mountain streams, trout are the 
most common. The streams are restocked at frequent intervals from the Government Fishery at Spear- 
fish with Brook, Locklaven, Speckled and Rainbow trout, so that fishing will continue to be one of the lead- 
ing diversions of the pleasure seeker. From November 1 st to May 1 st when trout fishing is prohibited in 
South Dakota, the sport may be continued across the line in Wyoming where no such restriction exists. 

SOUTH DAKOTA LAWS Residents of other states using their cars in South Dakota will not be 

CONCERNING AUTOMOBILES required to re-register their cars in South Dakota providing they have 
complied writh all laws regarding registration of automobiles in the state 
from which they came, and providing such state extends a similar privilege to South Dakotans. 

.Automobiles must be driven in a careful and prudent manner, at a rate of speed such as not to end- 
danger the property, life or limb of any person, provided that a rate of speed in excess of 25 miles per 
hour is presumptive evidence of driving at a rate of speed which is not careful and prudent, in case of in- 
jury to the person or property of another. Local authorities may limit speed to a rate of 1 miles per 
hour provided proper notices or warnings are placed in the public highway indicating such limitation of 
speed. 

The raising of the hand, by anyone who is leading, driving or riding a horse or other draft animal, as 
a signal to stop shall cause the driver of any automobile thus signalled to, to stop his car until the danger 
of frightening such animal is past. 



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Perhaps the best known city in the Northern Hills is Deadwood, the center of the industrial 
DEADWOOD and mining interests of this section. Most excellent hotel and garage accommodations, its 

convenience to surrounding points of scenic interest, and a general spirit of genuine western 
hospitality toward all will continue to make it a most popular tourist center. Although high in the 
Hills it is connected with the plains outside by a good road of easy gradient. 

At the point of entrance to the Blak Hills from the east. Rapid City has become a leading 
RAPID CITY industrial and railway center. Good hotel and garage accommodations make this a pleas- 
ant stopping place in the foothills. The trip westward into the Hills along Rapid Creek 
to Pactola by auto, or by rail to Mystic, should not be overlooked by any tourist in this territory. 

Spearfish is located on the northern margin of the Hills, close to the mouth of Spearfish can- 

SPEARFISH yon, to Sand Creek, to Higgins Gulch, Crow Peak and other fishing and hunting resorts. It 

has good hotel and garage accommodations, and is visited by thousands of tourists each 



Twenty-eight miles north of Deadwood and close to the 100,000 acre government ir- 
BELLE FOURCHE rigation project is a thriving county seat town of 3000 population. It has been a 
noted shipping point for those interested in cattle and sheep raising in years gone by 
and is now becoming the principal center of business for the adjacent irrigated districts. 

A thriving village at the point of entrance into the Hills which will be remembered by 
the tourist going by rail or auto to Deadwood, Lead, Spearfish or other points in the 



WHITEWOOD 

northern Hills. 



This has been one of the leading towns in the heart of the Black Hills district since the 
HILL CITY early days of the Black Hills history. Numerous tin, mica and other mines and consider- 

able rich agricultural land are found near here. About 45 miles from Deadwood, Rapid 
City and Hot Springs it is a convenient stopping place for tourists travelling through this territory. 



THE HOMESTAKE The largest gold mine in the world, employing an average of 3500 men and pro- 
MINE ducing from $5,000,000 to $8,000,000 worth of gold bullion per year, has its prin- 

cipal properties and mines at Lead. 

The Elliston Hoist, the largest now operated by the company, is 1850 feet deep. The 1200 H. P. hoist- 
ing engine with its hoisting rope, a 7^4 inch by ''g inch flat laced steel cable weighing 7 pounds to the foot, 
lifting a load of 10 tons, not including the weight of the cable from the bottom of the mine to the surface 
in a few seconds, is an interesting sight. Nearby are two air compressors, one delivering air at 80 pounds 
pressure for the use of rock drills and other machinery; the other compressing air to 850 pounds pressure 
for use of compressed air haulage motors. 

Across the gulch the drill sharpening shop where 3000 drills are sharpened each day, and the foun- 
dry and machine shop are points of interest. The noise of operation of the stamp mill night and day, 
365 days in the year make its location easily determinable. Here 240 stamps each weighing 900 pounds 
and dropping at the rate of 90 times per minute crush to a powder 1000 tons of ore each 24 hours. To 
each ton of powdered rock is added 2400 gallons of water which wash it over the silver plated copper 
plates. In another building it is re-ground, and the coarsest portion or sands sent to the Cyanide Plant. 
Here solution is accomplished by the addition of potassium cyanide, and the gold then precipitated 
by the addition of zinc dust. The finer portion of the powder or the slime is piped to the Slime Plant 
at Deadwood, where the gold bearing powder is caught in filter presses and the gold then extracted as 
before. 

The Homestake Pumping Plant at Hanna, 6 miles from Lead, and the Hydro-electric plant at Spear- 
fish, 15 miles from Lead, furnish the water and power used in the Homestake properties. The Hydro- 
electric Plant is the largest of its kind in the Hills. The water is carried in a tunnel 5 miles long from the 
river in Spearfish Canyon, at a point 8 miles from Spearfish, to the reservoir on top of the ridge overlook- 
ing and directly south of the city. The three surge towers, on the pipe lines leading from the reservoir 
down the 700 foot drop to the power plant, may be seen for many miles. 



SPEARFISH There is probably no other scenic place in the Black Hills which has been given as much 
CANON attention by tourists, photographers, and magazine writers as Spearfish Canyon. The 

Royal Gorge in Colorado, the Palisades of the Hudson and many other points of 
national scenic wonder may be found reproduced here on a scale perhaps less grand, but making up in 
beauty all that is lost in magnitude. Good automobile roads traverse long stretches of this canyon, enter- 
ing it from Deadwood, and from Spearfish as platted herein. It is anticipated that in a few years the road 
will be made suitable for auto traflic the entire length of the canyon. 

Crystal Cave, in the Northern Hills, is resplendent with stalactite and stalagmite forma- 
CRYSTALCAVE tions and is quite different in general structure from Wind Cave. During 1913 it 

is expected that the construction of a new road from Deadwood will make this cave 
accessible to automobile tourists. 

SYLVAN LAKE One of the most interesting places in the Hills from a scenic point of view is located 
THE NEEDLES about midway between Deadwood and Hot Springs. Harney Peak, the highest point 

HARNEY PEAK in the Hills from which can be seen four states, the hundreds of Needles, some rising 
as much as 500 feet in cathedral tower like grandeur, the great varied vistas, and 
the quiet beauty of Sylvan Lake surrounded by monstrous rock walls and pine clad heights, all bring to one 
the realization of the real wonder and beauty of nature. Excellent ho'el accommodations at Sylvan Lake 
makes this region justly popular as a tourist resort. 

This is a typical Black Hills stream in Wyoming close to Deadwood and Spearfish. The 
SAND CREEK fact that Wyoming laws allow trout fishing at all seasons of the year makes this stream 
the rendezvous of the fisher both summer and winter. 



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One of the great sights of this region, in many respects excelling the famous Mammoth 
WIND CAVE Cave of Kentucky, is Wind Cave. Over 200 miles of passageway and many thousands of 

rooms have been explored, some of these over 600 feet belovif the entrance. Yet, appar- 
ently neither the bottom nor the sides of this cave have been reached. The great abundance of "frost 
work" and "box work" in many forms make this cave unusually attractive and interesting. Guides will 
take parties into the Cave each day at 9:00 A. M. and 2:00 P. M. and occasionally at other times. 

As a health lesort the Southern Hills have gained a National reputation. A sani- 
HEALTH RESORTS tarium for treatment of tuberculosis patients has been established by the State near 

Custer, 29 miles north of Hot Springs. At the latter city is the State Home for 
Old Soldiers, and the Government Hospital for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and Sailors. Also numerous 
private sanitariums, for the treatment of various maladies, which are filled throughout the year. 

The city gets its name from the hundred springs near there which give out large quantities 
HOT SPRINGS of water at a temperature of 98 degrees F. or warmer. The water from these and from 

certain cold springs have been found to contain unusual mineral elements very valuable 
in the treatment of rheumatism of all kinds, nervous complaints, indigestion and intestinal disorders, 
pulmonary affections, diseases of the urinary organs, gout and skin diseases. Particularly noticeable have 
been the curing of parties affected with rheumatism. 

Besides the small swimming pools at the various sanitariums, two immense pools have been constructed 
which are centers of attraction during the summer months. These are the "Evans" and the "Mammoth 
Springs Plunge," both of which are enclosed in large buildings, and contain individual dressing rooms and 
all other possible conveniences. 

One of the largest and finest equipped hotels in the state is located here. 

Edgemont is a busy railway division point on the C. B. & Q. Ry. It is located on the 
EDGEMONT Cheyenne River southwest of the Bla^k Hills. To those who have seen the prairies of east- 
ern South Dakota. The Bad Land and Black Hills formations, a new type of topography is 
presented extending to the south and west of Edgemont. 



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East of the Black Hills, and within easy reach, is scenery, somewhat mountainous in 
THE BAD LANDS nature, yet very different from anything in the Black Hills or in other mountainous 
regions. To anyone who has not travelled the "Scenic Highway through South 
wo days trip eastward from Rapid City over this road is well worth while. 



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ist enters the Bad Lands near the town of Scenic, 45 miles east of Rapid City. From this 
point the next 50 miles is in the midst of some of the strangest and most wonderful scenery known. 
Broad grass covered basins are dotted with bare rounded hillocks or great irregular shaped buttes and 
ridges. Along the northern border of this region and much of the time within sight of the road is 'The 
Great Wall" several hundred feet in heigth, appearing against the sky line to be a succession of domes, 
towers, pinnacles and precipitous walls and gulches. The soil varies in color through the shades of white, 
buff, yellow, red and green. The valleys and flat plateaus on the tops of the ridges or buttes are usually 
grass covered while the slopes stand out most prominent because of their sheer height and nakedness. It 
is a scene that cannot be properly described; strange and wonderful in the e.xtreme. At first seemingly 
grotesque, then strangely beautiful, impressions are left on the mind that will never be forgotten. 

Pictures and more detailed description of this region, also a complete guide of the road from Rapid 
City eastward will be found in our "Map and Guide of the Scenic Highway through Soulh Dakota " 

No tourist should leave the Black Hills until this trip has been taken either by automobile or rail. 
In either case he should go as far east as the towns of Interior or Kadoka, and actually go through 
Cedar Pass which is five miles northeast of Interior. 




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6^APID CITY, the gateway to the Hills, lies on Rapid Creek for which it is 

R^2 named, midway between its source in the Western Black Hills and its mouth, 
^D where it empties into the Cheyenne river. Its location is ideal from the 
^'^'' standpoint of natural environment embracing, as it does, the rugged back- 
^^©ybone of the hills and a foreground of rolling prairie. In early days pioneers 
were quick to see the natural advantages of the location for a town and their 
selection proved the later choice of railroad engineers, who have made it the central point for 
two great systems in western South Dakota. Four distinct lines radiate from Rapid City, viz: 
The Omaha division of the Northwestern providing connection with Deadwood on the North 
and the great South and Southeast. The Pierre division running to the state capital and Chi- 
cago. The Milwaukee has its terminal here. It luns southeast through the Bad Lands, 
the only railroad traversing this Wonderland of Nature, and on to Chicago. The Rap- 
id City, Black Hills & Western has its headquaiters in Rapid City, and is one of the most 
wonderfully constructed railroads in the country. It follows Rapid Creek west to Mystic, 
about thirty-five miles where it connects with the Burlington system. This is called the "Scen- 
ic route of the Hills and affords tourists one of the grandest of pictueresque views to be had 
in the world. It is Colorado and the Grand Canyon in minature. 



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Located as it is in a country blessed by n iture Rapid City provides more amusement to 
lovers of the out door life than most cities. With a climate ofttimes as equitable in January 
as that of Southern California and with rainfall usually confined to the spring months out of 
door life finds here its perfect environment. The nights, owing to the altitude of nearly thirty- 
two hundren feet, are always cool, there being f :;w in the hottest of the summer months when 
blankets are not needed. The absence of d ?w makes camping a delightful pactime and 
there is trout fishing, for those who enjoy the g ;ntle art of Isaac Walton, as good as the coun- 
try affords anywhere. Deer are plentiful in s ason and game birds, including grouse, par- 
tridge, quail and duck, are plentiful enough t ) make it worthe the while of any follower of 
Nimrod. 

Rapid City itself being thus favorably lo ;ated is the center of business activity radiating 
east as far as the Missouri river and west, nort n and south to the boundaries of the Black 
Hills. It has the three requisites of a progressive and up-to-date grow^ing city — first-class 
hotels, a new up-to-date theatre and a live ne vspaper. From the city all of the interest- 
ing points in the Hills can be reached by rail oads, or by automobiles over roads which are 
being constantly improved. 











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GARAGE 

Polarine, Gasoline, Packard Oils 

and Accessories, Bulck Cars 

Repair Shop 



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FT I \/\^ Developed and 
1 ILIVIO Printed by Experts 

A full line of 

Cameras and Photographic Supplies 

Mall Orders Promptly 
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C. H. RISE 

Formerly Harney Stat'y Shop RAPID CITY 

One bldck south and one block east of Harney Hotel 




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Machine Shop and Auto Garage 



Tires, Supplies, Accessor- 
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Oxy-Accetylene Welding Plants 
Trouble Wagons] Always Ready 

Telephone Either Shop 
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'^l)itewoo6, Soutl) iDakota 

The prettiest spot in the Foot Hills. Adjacent on the west to magnificent moun- 
tain scenery, and on the east overlooking rich farming \ alleys 



Junciion on C. & N. W. Ry. for Deadwood, 
Lead, Belle Fourche and all points on 
Government Irrigation proj'ect. I lead- 
quarters for Stage Lines to Vale and 
Spearfish. :::::::::::: 




Modern Hotel equipped with steam heat. Baths and electric Lights. Auto garages 
and repair shops. Complete system of rural and city telephones 



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Where Will You Spend Your Vacation? 

^^e Tfotel TFranklin 

At Deadwood, 5. D., the Center of the Beautiful Black Hills 

European Plan. Rates, $ 1 .00 per day and up- 
wards. Unexcelled Cafe and Lunch Room In 
connection. Modern Garage within one block 
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■^ HE HOTEL FRANKLIN is recognized as the finest hotel in the state and is the 
headquarters for tourists. Deadwood is in the heart of the pictueresque "Play- 
grounds of South Dakota", where fishing, hunting, camping and fine automobile 
X roads through the pine clad Hills and Canyons form a part of the attractions that 

make it the Mecca of Tourists. Mosquitos and heat are unknown. The hub of all points of 
interest in the Hills is Deadwood. The famous Homestake, the largest gold mine in the 
world, and Crystal Cave, the great underground cavern that extends for miles are reached 
from Deadwood. 
MAKE DEADWOOD AND THE FRANKLIN YOUR VACATION HEADQUARTERS 

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F. W. MEDBERY, 



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DEADWOOD — The Commercial and mining center of the wonderfully rich and beautiful 
Climate — Scenery — No Mosquitos — Hospitality — Good Roads — Trout Fishing. 



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DEADWOOD is a thoroughly modern, enterprising city, well lighted with cluster lights, good 
water, good church, school and lodge facilities, unusually handsome buildings and pav- 
ed streets on which are up-to-date stores with large stocks. 



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in the Hills lead out of ivL/vLy W V_y VV|_y can visit: 



Spearfish Spearfish Canyon 

With it. U S. Fish Hatchery One o( the most Beautiful in the west 

Crystal Cave Spearfish Falls 

Well worth exploring 

Rapid Canyon Sylvan Lake 

Hot Springs 

Belle Fourche, with its big irrigation project is easy of access 



Over eight millions a year in gold bullion passes through Deadwood from this 
part of the Black Hills. See it in the assay office in gold brick form. See 
it in the treatment plants as the gold is extracted, see it in the mines whence it 
comes from the earth. All within easy reach of Deadwood. 



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Do You Love 

the mountains? 

scenery and good roads by which to see it? 

the cooling breezes as they blow from the green 
pine-clad hills, with their health-giving tend- 
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DEADWOOD 



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has the best hotels in tlie state. 



and a #2t?.ooo auditorium, erected especially for conventions? 



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DEADWOOD, 5. D. 



Black Hills Headquarters for 

Automobile Supplies 
and Accessories 



LARGE FIRE PROOF GARAGE 

Complete Equipment for All Kinds 
of Repairing 

Competent Mechanics in Charge 



LEAD CITY GARAGE 

Lower Main St.. Lead, 5. D. 

Repairing Storage 

Auto Livery 

A Complete Line Ford 
Repairs Always in Stock 

Packard Oil, Tires and Supplies 



Agenc> 

METZ *'22" 

Best Low Priced Car on Earth 



$495.00 



Geo. Caughron L. M. Larsen 

M. Larsen 



TELEPHONE NUMBERS: 
Garage. B2286. Office, 2033. Residence. B2 1 85 



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Harney Peak Hotel 

EUGENE LITTLE. Proprietor 

Hill City, South Dakota 

Good Meals 

To Make You Feel at Home, Day or Night, Is Our Endeavor 



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Hill City, South Dakota 

HILL CITY is situated on the Burlington Rail- 
road, and is right in the midst of the mining 
district of the Southern Black Hills, it is 
surrounded by fine mountain ranches, that 
have suffered only one crop failure in 25 years. 
These ranches produce 60 to 70 bushels of oats 
per acre that weigh from 40 to 48 lbs. to the 
bushel, wild and timothy hay grow abundantly, as 
well as potatoes, all without irrigation. 

Hill City being the half way point on the 
Scenic Highway north and south through the Hills 
makes it the ideal point for a noon or night stop 
for automobilists, there being first-class hotels and 
restaurants to provide comfort and good meals 
for the tourists. By the opening of the season of 
1913 the town will be equipped with a garage at 
which can be had gas, oil and minor repairs. 





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HUMMEL'5 GARAGE 



Tourist Headquarters 
In Hot Springs 

One-half Block from the Evans Hotel 



Auto Supplies and Accessories 
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^he Qreatest T)elight of the Trip 

In automobiling over this part of the west is \ our sojourn at 

Hot Springs, South Dal^ota 

(VERYBODY who Icnows will tell you this, and those who don't know it 
should lose no time in finding it out. Plan for it and don't fail. Ample 
hotel accommodations suitable to your tastes and desires — $1.00 a day up; 
$5.00 a week to $20.00. Delightful auto drives to Wind Cave, Cascade 
Springs, Cheyenne Falls, etc. The Hot Springs to Deadwood Scenic High- 
way, right through the very heart of the Black Hills, one of the best and 
most fascinating roads in the state, a charming day's run, will be one of the most mem- 
orable of your life. Plan for it. Don't miss it. 

Booklet Free 

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Good Dining Room in Connection 

Prices to Suit Vou 



Trout Fishing Best on Earth 
Three Blocl<s From Hotel 



Good "'Lar^e Game" Hunting In Season 
5top A While With Us 



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Spearfish Falls 



You Are Cordially Invited 



To Come To 



Spearfisl), So, i)aK. 



We have excellent schools, four churches, modern 
business blocks, cluster street lamps, about ten miles of ce- 
ment walks, and a modern gravity system of water works. 

The adjacent valley is the richest farming land in the 
western part of this state. It w^ill only be a short time un- 
til this country will develop into the richest dairy section 
of the state. 

Come and See For Yourself 



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Camp, Fish and Hunt 

In Spearfish Valley 
and 5pearfish Canyon 




Fishing Scene, Spearfish River 



We have ideal camping grounds, good water, fine trout fishing, shady groves, 
excellent w^eather and lots of scenery. This is an ideal place for spending a vaca- 
tion. Bring your camp outfit, your camp clothes, your camera, your fishing tack- 
le, etc. You will like the place. 

ALL POINTS ACCESSIBLE BY AUTOMOBILE 



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Crystal Springs Ranch on Sand Creel^ 

J. H. GARDNER, Proprietor, Beulah, Wyoming 

Over a mile of the BEST TROUT FISHING stream in Wyoming. Three big artificial fresh water 
ponds containing millions of trout. Streams are restocked every season. 34 miles from Deadwood, 19 
miles from Spearfish, 25 miles from Belle Fourche. Fine camping spots, or board and lodging may be 
obtained at my NEW MODERN BUNGALOW. 

AN IDEAL PLACE TO SPEND YOUR VACATION WHERE COST IS LOW AND SERVICE THE BEST 






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GARAGE 

Fire Proof Garage, Repairs and 
Supplies. Auto Livery 

Spearfish, 




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Ashcroft & Moore 

Belle Fourche, 5. D. 



WELL EQUIPPED GARAGE 

Lar^e Stock of Automobile 
Sundries. Complete Line of 
Ford Parts and Accessories 



Free Air for Your Tires. Gas- 
oline Station. Oils of Every 
Description. All Sizes of Tires 
and Inner Tubes. Prest-O-Llte 
Exchange :-: :-: :-: :-: :-: 



Telephone, 77, day, or L20 at nl^ht 

All work and material guaranteed to be 
as represented 



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Machine Shop and Auto Garage 



Tires, Supplies, Accessor- 
es, Prest-O-Lite, Repairing 



All Work Done byiPractlcal and Experienced 
workmen 



Oxy-Accetylene Welding Plants 
Trouble Wagons Always Ready 



Telephone Either Shop 

5TURG1S BELLE FOURCHE newell 



KENNEFICK HOTEL 



ICII PJT"^ 1 American Plan 



Belle Fourche, 5. D. 



Rates, $1.50 and up 




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THE City of Belle Fourche, the County 
Seat of Butte County, is located in the 
Belle Fourche Valley upon the Belle 
Fourche and Redwater rivers. The city was 
established in the days of Count de Mores 
and Theodore Roosevelt upon the western 
prairies and was one of the stations on the 
De Mores trail between the Black Hills and 
New England and De Mores, N. D. It bears 



the distinction of being the greatest primary 
cattle market in the world. Its trade is drawn 
from the ranges of Montana and Wyoming 
as well as the fertile valleys of South Da- 
kota. It is surrounded by beautiful valleys 
which extend to the foot of the Bear Lodge 
and Black Hills. From the first cattle town 
in the state it has grown to be one of the 
first cities of the state. Its citizenship is pro- 
gressive and its business men are working 
for the best interests of the community. It 
has one of the best hotels in the state and its 
public buildings would be a credit to a much 
larger community. It is the gateway to the 
Belle Fourche and Spearfish valleys. The 
diversion dam of the Belle Fourche Irriga- 
tion Project is almost within the city limits. 
This dam diverts the water from the Belle 
Fourche river into the great reservoir cover- 
ing over 8000 acres of land and holding 
over 200,000 acre feet of water. This water 
is held by the largest earth dam in existence. 



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being in heighth I 1 5 feet and over 6000 feet 
in length and retaining sufficient water to 
irrigate 100,000 acres of land. This dam is 
one of the marvels of the age. It is worth 
one's time to visit the same. The Spearfish 
valley is older in irrigation and has an abun- 
dance of fruit. Within six miles of Belle 
Fourche is the largest natural water power 
plant in the northwest, where the power for 





the great Homestake mine is generated from 
the waters of the Redwater river. A beau- 
tiful highway logged herein connects Belle 
Fourche with all the valleys and the famous 
trout fishing streams of South Dakota as 
well as the picturesque Sand Creek of Wy- 
oming, in order to reach these streams in 
the most acceptable manner take the logged 
highways from Belle Fourche. 



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Denver to Deadwood 

Auto Route 

The increased demand of tourists for a good auto 
route between these scenic centers has resulted in an 
organized effort to build and maintain such a road by 
way of HOT SPRINGS, EDGEiMONT and CHEYENNE 

Tourists contemplating such a trip should inquire 
as to this road. 



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Ed^emont, the Town of the Deepest 
Wells in the United States 

)DGEMONT, is situated on the Burlington Railroad, a divisional point, 
and the terminal of the Black Hills branch of the celebrated C. B. & 
Q. system. 

It is the deep well town of the United States, having one well 
flowing 400,000 gallons of hot water every day, with a pressure of 
90 pounds at a depth of 2988 feet and another well in course of construction now 
2835 feet deep. 

To the north of the town He the celebrated Black Hills, the Forest Reserve, and 
a few miles away is the great Wind Cave, and government park, soon to be stocked 
with buffalo and elk. 

East, south and west of the city lie great belts of rich agricultural lands now in 
course of development. A short distance from the town is the government Exper- 




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imental farm, where all kinds of seed and methods of cultivation are tried out for 
the benefit of settlers. Government land can be secured within a few miles of the 
city. The city has four churches, seventy businesses represented, one of the finest 
school buildings in the state, with a competent corps of teachers, a large garage, 50 
by 1 20 feet, containing all the latest machinery for repairing autos, including the 
new autogenous welding machine, an immense bridge over the Cheyenne river, ad- 
mitting of travel the year around. 

Twenty trains leave Edgemont every day, among which are six passenger trains 
— four of them trans-continental, fully equipped with all conveniences for the trav- 
eling public. 

The finest melons grown in any country are produced here and are in competi- 
tion with the Rockey Ford product of Colorado. 

The Fall River County Fair Association has its headquarters in the city, pos- 
sessing one of the best race tracks in the state. Several thousand dollars will be ex- 
pended upon this proposition the present year for the accommodation of exhibitors 

For business locations and pleasure, Edgmont has few equals. The town is 
the official gateway to the Black Hills for the Denver to Deadwood auto road. 



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Log furnished by Hot Springs 
Commercial Club 




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ORIN L. KIPP.C.E. 
Associate En&tne«r 



2)aKota Engineering (Tontfan^ 

(Elvll Engineers 

r indlviUuals. City, County and State Officers has Included: 
LAND^DRAINAGE AND IRRIGATION SURVEYS 

In all potts of the state 

SEWER AND WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS 

In over thirty live cities and towns 

HIGHWAY AND STREET IMPROVEMENTS 

Por counties, townships and cities 

CONCRETE, STEEL AND TIMBER STRUCTURES 

Bridges and buildings 

;^\ILWAY WORK 

l\>j steam and electric railways 

COURT WORK OR TESTIMONY 

In cases where engineering Investigation or testimony Is required 



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■J. 2269. Dakoi?\ Cantral Telephone 



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